Sir Ed Davey said Parliament's recall to protect British Steel is essential amid “Putin’s barbaric war” and Trump’s “outrageous tariffs”. He said the Liberal Democrats will work constructively with the Government but warned nationalisation “should not be off the table”. Davey also called on Nigel Farage to apologise for supporting Trump, accusing him of being a “plastic patriot” who owes steelworkers an apology. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Putin's barbaric war in Europe and Donald Trump's outrageous tariffs causing
00:05economic disorder, we really need to protect our industry, in this case our
00:10steel industry. If that requires Parliament to come straight away we
00:14should do that. Liberal Democrats will work constructively with the government,
00:17want to listen to what they've got to say, read what they're going to publish
00:20tomorrow, but we want to make sure our steel industry is safe for our steel
00:25workers and our country, and I don't think nationalisation should be off the
00:30table, but there are other measures to make sure we've got the steel for our
00:34defence industry, our energy industry and for our economy going forward. One person
00:38I hope will be there tomorrow is Nigel Farage, he's been the big supporter of
00:43Donald Trump and now he ought to apologise to British steel and British steel
00:48workers. He's a plastic patriot, he should apologise for his support for Donald
00:54Trump who's caused this damage.